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2005 memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir (originally published as The Story of my Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky) is a memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary.

Farah Ahmedi is a humanitarian, activist, and writer from Afghanistan.

Farah Ahmedi, a year-old girl whose childhood in Afghanistan was filled with horror and sadness.

Farah Ahmedi is a humanitarian, activist, and writer from Afghanistan.

The book profiles the life of Farah Ahmedi from the time she was born until she was seventeen years old.

Farah Ahmedi tells the story of her life in Kabul to Tamim Ansary.

The book profiles the life of Farah Ahmedi from the time she was born until she was seventeen years old.^[1]

This book is about the struggles Farah faces throughout her life. The story begins when she was growing up in war torn Afghanistan.

One day when she was seven, Farah woke up late, so she decided to take a shortcut to school. Unknown to her, there was a landmine that was planted in the field she was cutting across.

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan at the peak of the war between the Soviet Union and the mujahideen, a young woman's memoir intertwines the story of her childhood.

She accidentally stepped on it and it exploded. After her leg was amputated and she fled to Pakistan with her mother, World Relief accepted their applications to go to America. Once they arrived, Farah and her mother continued to struggle with the new culture, language, and the speed of the m